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Using linux commands , is there way to list files which are created an hour (or particular date) before ?.
sudurais
Posted 2011-05-20T00:51:19.627
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How do I list files modified on or before particular date?
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you can use the find command along with -mmin and -mtime flags.
For example to list *.txt files in Downloads folder modified more than 30 days ago use this:
find $HOME/Downloads -name '*.txt' -mtime +30
+ implies more than
smokinguns
Posted 2011-05-20T00:51:19.627
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The find command's -mmin and -mtime predicates can select files based on their mtime.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Posted 2011-05-20T00:51:19.627
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Valid answer, but a note to Original Question: this depends on the file metadata stored with on the filesystem. This can be reset by the
touchcommand. In short, you can never know 100% when it was changed. – Rich Homolka – 2011-05-20T23:10:32.387@Rich. Thanks for sharing the note. I agree. In my reqs, I wanted to cleanup iso files built doing last compliations. it takes so much space. So, I wanted to cleanup everytime after successful completion of build. – sudurais – 2011-05-22T05:12:45.750